Posted on 08/31/2016 6:56:03 AM PDT by C19fan
A new documentary is challenging Star Wars fans to unlearn what they have learned about the awful prequels that ruined our childhoods and stole our innocence about future Star Wars films.
Not that I’m bitter.
Anyway, a handful of prequels fans decided a few years ago to crowdfund The Prequels Strike Back, a documentary that is supposed to give people a fresh new perspective on The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, based on scholarly commentary from no less than arts expert Camille Paglia and Jonathan Young, a Joseph Campbell scholar.
(Excerpt) Read more at heatst.com ...
Return of the Ewoks sucked also
Exactly. I saw the first prequel in the theater and couldn’t follow it. The rest I waited to see on tv, and they are all unwatchable.
That was the moment Lucas jumped the shark.
I didn’t think that anything could be worse than the first three. But I was wrong
BTW: “Live long and Prosper” is a better salutation than “The Force be with you”
“Live Long and Prosper” has interesting roots.
ALL the Star Wars movies are bad....they basically are just bad Spaghetti Westerns in Space.
The muppet-like appearance that the characters began to take on, even in the third installment (Episode VI - Return of the Jedi), killed it for me. They became the equivalent of a made-for-t.v. after school special.
“Star wars” and “Empire” were great fun and none of us took them seriously. “Return Of The Jedi” started out OK but then just sort of fizzled.
I do think the Ewoks were the worst thing in all of them. Even worse than Jar Jar, who we could at least not take seriously.
Yeah it is interesting
I first saw the prequels on a Christmas week Star Wars TV marathon. I never even knew they existed until I saw them that day. (I don’t “go to” the movies) I specifically remember wondering if they were crowd funded fake movies... yes, they were that bad.
The Schwartz be with you...
The first two (IV & V, that is) at least didn’t try so hard. They were light-hearted enough that you could enjoy them for what they are. There is something freeing in that.
The prequels make a whole lot more sense when you realize that JarJar was in fact a Sith master extraordinaire, as evidenced by his knack for being around major galactic-political events and killing vast numbers of opponents via the Jedi equivalent of “drunken Kung Fu”. This is explored & explained in ridiculous detail elsewhere, easily searched for.
The first 3 movies back in the 70s were good. Haven’t cared to waste my time or dollars on those that followed.
I liked Jar Jar.
Episodes 1-3 made Anakin (Darth Vader) nothing more than a whiney little crybaby emo with severe mommy issues
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